If a person has an idea, how would they protect that idea? What if another person had the same idea? What if a person had an idea because of the idea in question? Each had their own individual ideas, but they all seemed to mix and depend on each other, so who owns that idea and is it wrong to want to improve on the idea to make it better?
Say the afore mentioned idea is a tune for a song. So if two people who don't have any connection to each other have the same idea for a tune who owns it? Questions like these just baffle me and cause me to be ambivalent on the whole matter. When I think about it, both sides are having their creative moments but only one will ever recieve credit. To me this seems entirely unfair.
If I'm honest, I'd have to say that I think that copyright laws are too restrictive for our times. Think about when the laws were passed. Did they have high speed internet that can let people comunicate across the world in mere seconds? Did they have software that can edit pretty much any type of media with little effort? The Copyright Act of 1976 may have been appropriate for the time it was made for, but things change.
I can understand that people should have the right to make money from their music or book or other intellectual products, but I also know what it is like to have an idea that builds off of a peice of music or video clip and inspires one to create and be artistic (which is something I think a lot more people should do).
I guess what I want to say is that to create something is a precious process and everyone should have the oppurtunity to create even if their creation takes influences from established works. To copy directly would be foolish, but to be inspired and shape your own thoughts with your inspiration should be allowed, don't you think?
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